Category: Philosophy

People who like sociobiology or evolutionary psychology often use just so stories to explain why certain things are as they are. The name “just so stories” is taken from Rudyard Kipling’s book of that name, in which he wrote stories for children about how, for example, the camel got his hump. A typical evolutionary psychology…

I recently got in an e-mail discussion about the philosophical problem of free will. Here are some notes on it. In general I think Daniel Dennett has correctly described the issue in his books Elbow Room and Freedom Evolves (of the two, I prefer the older Elbow Room). The issue is: given a materialistic universe,…